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FERNLEY, Nev. (AP) — Officials are warning Fernley residents about heavy smoke coming from a 10-acre brush fire that's burning about two miles east of the city.
Scott Huntley, the district fire chief with the North Lyon County Fire Protection District, says firefighters received a call at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday for a car fire. When they arrived, the car was fully engulfed, and flames had spread to nearby brush on land owned by the Bureau of Land Management.
The fire is burning in a swamp where Fernley runs off its treated wastewater. Firefighters can't reach the blaze, so they're letting it burn out on its own.
Huntley says no structures are threatened and no injuries have been reported.
But he says the 20,000 residents of Fernley, which is about 30 miles east of Reno, could be bothered by the smoke.
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